- Domestic (meaning within the empire) Production
- Farming is the most economic activity (always will be before 1800s)
- Trade!
- Most industrialized production - Silk
- Comes from silkworms
- Comes from China
- Silk is super desirable because it's very useful in hot weather and because it's pretty
- Other industries
- Jewelry
- Textiles
- Carpets
- Silk, wool, linen
- Innovations in Business
- Government antitrust laws
- Silk industry split (by law) into:
- Growers
- Weavers
- Dyers
- Retailers (sellers)
- Prevent monopolies (when one business has too much power)
- Bezant
- A coin
- Basically the Mediterranean Euro
- Bank
- How would a bank benefit merchants?
- It's not exactly because it stores money
- It can collect interest and more profit than what they put in
- Language
- Also had a Greek alphabet because they derived it based off of previous Greek history and the amount of philosophy and methods taken from it
- Art
- Heavily religious
- Heavily influential on Western medieval art
- Philosophy, Literature, Science
- Incorporated into Government via Bureaucracy
- Inherited from classical Greece
- Conservative
dec 2 2015 ∞
dec 2 2015 +